Lovebuch family happenings

My neurosurgery is scheduled for early Tuesday, Sept. 1.  It was delayed 1.5 weeks because my platelet counts weren't high enough.  Hopefully, they'll be high enough next week and I can get this port! Also hopefully I won't have to sit in pre-op for twelve hours hours like I did last week. It was one of the more interesting places to hang, as everybody is a lil' nervous, and all kinds of people are in there together with huge scales in the severity of their situations. Some are grateful just to be there, as they get another chance to fight stage 4 cancer, while others are giving the nurses flack for lecturing them on how they need to stop drinking energy drinks all day after their 2nd heart surgery. Hopefully, I'll be in and out, and then recovering the rest of the day! As for the weekend, I'm laying low and catching back up on sleep from the dose of steroids I got this week.  Bree's family is coming through and we're gonna spend some time with t

Hello Friends and Family, I'll get a little background going here and then a few details of the new diagnosis with a general plan for treatment.  I was feeling great, with no symptoms. I was working this summer as a plant restorationist after finishing my first year of graduate school in Environmental Horticulture (for me which translates to plant restoration in natural areas). Briana and I got engaged at the end of July! A major life-highlight! And then we headed down to Lake Tahoe for vacay with the Lovells and then came back for a 3-night backpacking trip with the Buchners in the Cascades. A week later, I found out that a surveillance scan showed that my leukemia was back some how.  I did not expect this news. Every few months for the last 1.5 years, my oncologist injects chemo into my spinal chord to treat any leukemia cells that might have hid out and were missed during the first treatment.  They also take out some fluid to scan for bad cells. Unfortunately, the ro